Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2565 



first dorsal; anal much lower than dorsal, the longest rays being in front, 

 its third ray about | as long aw lirst ray of second dorsal; this fin inserted 

 under the seventh ray of second dorsal ; about 3 of the terminal anal rays 

 might be considered caudal rays; pectoral inserted slightly in advance of 

 ventral, which is in about the same vertical with the origin of the first 

 dorsal, second ray of pectoral slightly produced; length of pectoral equal 

 to that of head without snout; ventral insertion distant from tip of snout 

 a distance equal to that of first dorsal from snout, the first and second 

 rays filamentous, the latter slightly the longer, and extending to the 

 fifteenth or eighteenth ray of anal fin. Color brown; vertical fins bluish 

 or black ; peritoneum black ; inside of gill covers and roof of mouth bluish. 

 (Goode & Bean.) West Indies and Gulf of Mexico. Three specimens 

 known; the type from near Martinique, (arcuatus, arched.) 



Bathygadus arcuatus, GOODE <fe BEAN, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xir, TS T o. 5, 158, 1883, off 

 Martinique, in 334 fathoms (Coll. Slake) ; GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 421, 

 1896. 



2939. BATHYGADUS FAVOSUS, Goode & Bean. 



Head 5 in total length; depth about 6$ eye 5 in head; snout about 4. 

 D. II, 9-125; A. 110; V. 9; P. 14; B. 7; scales 10-135-16. Body heavy, 

 stout, the profile descending gradually and in a slight curve from first dor- 

 sal to snout. Scales small, deciduous, cycloid, without armature; interor- 

 bital area^lightly convex, its greatest width about 3 in head ; the postor- 

 bital part of head 2f times as long as eye; snout broad, oblique, its 

 width at the nostrils a little more than that of interorbital area; nostrils 

 close to and in front of middle of eye, the posterior somewhat the larger ; 

 no barbel. Teeth in both jaws in villiform bands, a naked space at 

 symphysis of intermaxillaries ; intermaxillary bands more than twice as 

 wide as those of mandible ; vomer and palatines toothless. Gill rakers 

 20 + 25, the longest on anterior arch slightly more than \ eye; pseudobraii- 

 chia3 present, very rudimentary in some individuals, in others wanting 

 or present only on one side; first dorsal distant from snout a distance 

 slightly more than length of head, length of its base about equal to width 

 of snout at nostrils, the fin consisting of 2 spines, the first minute, and 

 9 branched rays ; length of longest dorsal spine, which is armed, 2 in head; 

 second dorsal beginning immediately behind first, the membrane being 

 continuous; anterior rays longest, apparently about length of head; 

 anal lower than second dorsal, its distance from snout about equal to i 

 of total length; pectoral inserted under anterior rays of first dorsal and 

 very slightly in advance of origin of ventral, its length more than ^ that 

 of head; distance of ventral from snout 5 times in total length; this 

 fin inserted nearly under base of pectoral; the first ray somewhat pro- 

 duced, its tip reaching to fourth ray of anal fin. Color bluish brown, 

 darkest upon head and abdomen. West Indies. The type specimen, 350 mm. 

 in length, was obtained by the Blake from Station LXXX, off Martinique, 

 at a depth of 472 fathoms. (Goode & Bean.) (favosus, like honeycomb.) 



Bathygadus favosus, GOODE & BEAN. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xii, No. 5, 160, 1883, off Mar- 

 tinique in 472 fathoms (Coll. Blake) ; GOODS & BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 420, fig. 

 352, 1896. 



